Slightly off topic: Anyone else tired of that graphic style? Everything looks like that now, like all life has been distilled into clean, synthetic product. I'm ready for the world to break out into ornate realism or some such other thing.

At the White House Correspondents' Dinner Obama joked about eating dogs and hockey moms. Now he is painting a pretty picture of a kind king who has created a comely house for just about everyone. And it's no joke.“Said a gracious wolf to a simple sheep; Will you not honor our house with a visit?And the sheep answered; We would have been honored to visit your house if it were not in your stomach.” (Kahlil Gibran: Sand and Foam)

If you want some meaningless babble, go read excerpts from the Bamster's "love letters" to one of his "compressed" white girl friends. Now that's world class meaningless babble from a world class BS artist. Not terribly coherent, but if the girl was not particularly bright, it might impress her.

This is like the fifth time I pursued a link that turns out to be an Obama link and right off the bat, immediately, before anything, no reading until I provide my email address and each time I say fuck you really hard.

I'll find out what you're on about without giving you my email you asshole.

Chip Ahoy said...This is like the fifth time I pursued a link that turns out to be an Obama link and right off the bat, immediately, before anything, no reading until I provide my email address and each time I say fuck you really hard.

One more musical "Julia" - since David S. didn't post this one, his last name must not be "Surkamp," the vocalist on this little ditty. David Surkamp used to be the go-to singer when Geddy Lee's voice was just too deep..

Fen - I read the news about Luciano. Even knowing how uninformed and biased MSM dweebs are, it is hard to fathom that we knopw know of at least three instances where they marched in lockstep to the librul drummer and the three instances were unconnected- they did it separately!

And I have to assume they had no care about the potential consequences on Zimmerman.

(Fen, I don't know why you would want to outMaher Maher and outBernhard Bernhard etc. when it comes to using the most vile rhetoric you can think of against a female political antagonist. What's the point? How does that help? Especially since I agree with you that that woman has done something vile (doctored the Zimmerman tape)-- why make *her*, the perpetrator, into a victim, by means of your language?)

That Julia thing is so mockworthy. As Yuval Levin aptly puts it, "Life of Julia" is "like Portlandia earnestly offered up as drama."

Insurance companies should be made to give woemn free tampons. It's really not a monthly visit from her aunt, you know. Why shouldn't the healthcare fatcats do the right thing? Shit like that adds up. I bet Obama/DNC donations would soar if women had their money back.

Julia graduated college with high marks and a promising future. She met a man back there in college and the two fell in love and married. She finished her degree but made a careful decision to significantly change the arc that her life would take and she did successfully raise a family of four children and her husband eventually became a Republican Senator. Her story is still unfolding but mostly because of her husband's job her relationship with government is nothing at all what she anticipated.

At least, Julia does not fall victim to the dreaded obesity epidemic in America.

Speaking of which, OMG, have you seen the trailer for HBO's big (no pun intended) 4-part obesity epidemic documentary, "The Weight of the Nation"?

I don't want to minimize or make light (no pun intended!) of the problem of obesity in America. Seriously, I understand that widespread obesity has serious ramifications not only for the individuals suffering from it, but the nation as a whole (affecting not only health but health care and thus public policy). It's a topic that deserves serious attention. Especially since it now appears many of the dietary guidelines the federal government has pushed in the past turn out to have been... completely wrong. Wonder if the doc will touch on that.

I feel a lot of sympathy for persons suffering from obesity.

But that trailer strikes me as so over the top-- especially the oh-so-obvious tie-in with Obama White House agitprop ("AN UNPRECEDENTED PUBLIC HEALTH CAMPAIGN"; the soaring overhead shots of the White House; it's like an Obama campaign ad)-- that I plead guilty of finding it… kinda funny. It's not even so much the hyperbole as the documentary style. Does it make me a bad person that I can't help but giggle at the last line, like the last line of an apocalyptic Hollywood movie trailer: "Obesity will crush the United States… in oblivion."

"The Weight of a Nation" - this title has a familiar lefty ring to it...

Only the left can take a situation(fat people, the weather, bratty kids) and turn it into a national or preferably a global catastrophe (obesity, global warming, bullying) that can only be solved by government intervention and control and, of course, increased taxes and spending. And a movie deal, let us not forget. And no, I don't mean "Breakfast at Michael Moore's" which probably runs at least 3 hours.

Did the trailer start out "In a world ..."? Like, "In a world where people are allowed to eat WHATEVER THEY WANT [grainy shot of sad morbidly obese people waddling around], sometimes the government [swooping aerial shot of White House] must act."

Women are goodness and light, and perfect. Govt policy should reflect that.Women should be given money from the govt to let them live a lower-upper class lifestyle.If they should choose to work, they should automatically be promoted to CEO.Women's word should be taken as truth. If a woman says a man did something bad, the man should be convicted immediately, no trial.

Democrats are the party standing in the way of this.

Why are the Democrats engaged in this War on Women?

How can you live with yourself for supporting this vile, horrible, and despicable attack on women, garage and Ms. Oop?

Julia did it all with the help of Obama. She's part of the big happy Obama family. Julia's daddy Obama will pay for everything and allow her to behave in any way that pleases him. No other men are needed, just Obama and the money from the 1%. As long as Julia doesn't pork up and remembers to vote correctly all will be well until she gets an expensive health problem at an inconvenient age, then she can go to a beautifully curtained room and get happy pills until she dies as long as she's quick about it.

Funny. I thought Julia Child. Even without the Palladian's serendipitous pun. Same era. Sure, John says he wrote it for his mother and for Yoko Ono (really?) but perhaps he was just watching WGBH on tour in Boston.

A recent short-term study by Abbott-Shim, Lambert, and McCarty (2003) is particularly notable for using random assignment of eli- gible 4-year-olds who had applied to a large Head Start program with a waiting list. This procedure allowed the researchers to rule out selection bias as an influence on results. Abbott-Shim et al. (2003) found that Head Start participants benefited substantially com- pared to nonparticipants in the areas of recep- tive vocabulary and phonemic awareness and had more positive health-related outcomes, for example, they were more likely to be cur- rent on their immunizations.Good thing Julie at least got a head start, the rest with just a little bit of help.

n sum, this report finds that providing access to Head Start has benefits for both 3-year-olds and 4-year-olds in the cognitive, health, and parenting domains, and for 3-year-olds in the social-emotional domain. However, the benefits of access to Head Start at age four are largely absent by 1st grade for the program population as a whole. For 3-year-olds, there are few sustained benefits, although access to the program may lead to improved parent-child relationships through 1st grade…

Julia is an American sitcom notable for being one of the first weekly series to depict an African American woman in a non-stereotypical role.

In Julia, Carroll played widowed single mother Julia Baker (her helicopter pilot husband had been shot down in Vietnam) who was a nurse in a doctor's office. The doctor, Morton Chegley, was played by Lloyd Nolan, and Julia's romantic interests by Paul Winfield and Fred Williamson. Julia's son, Corey (Marc Copage) was approximately six to nine years old during the series run. He had barely known his father before he died.

Previous television series featured African American lead characters, but the characters were usually servants. The show starred actress and singer Diahann Carroll, and ran for 86 episodes on NBC from September 17, 1968 to March 23, 1971.

Julia has never really worked a day in her life. She's never really dealt with the kind of economic issues that a majority of the women in this country are facing in terms of how do we feed our kids, how do we send them to school, and why do we worry about their future.

So, none of you went to public school or had a federal student loan? Good for you, I guess. Apparently, I am not boot-strappy enough. I apologize for my dependence on the government.

Back in the day when I went school, the schools were funded by property taxes, you know, local taxes. And believe it or not, people went to night school while working durring the day to pay for school.

So R-V did you just happen to stop reading right where your quote ended or did you purposely try to mislead people...you know, like us, your friends here in search of some enlightenment. I for one am hurt deeply by this. I looked up to you like, like a teacher, guiding me on my lonely journey. I feel lost, abandoned.

@ Armartel Only the left can take a situation(fat people, the weather, bratty kids) and turn it into a national or preferably a global catastrophe (obesity, global warming, bullying) that can only be solved by government intervention

More than 20 years ago a friend of mine met an activist in D.C. who thought she was one of them. The technique he shared with her was you precipitate a crisis and then you can move in and solve it.

Lots of deja vue all over again with this bunch.

But then, progressive education doesn't include the chicken little or boy who cried wolf stories.

What makes Obama's six-decade presidency even more terrible to contemplate is that even when Julia's 67 years old, he'll still be blaming the difficulty of paying for her bennies on the economy he inherited from Bush.

Good luck with that. This thread shows off typical garage idiocy; whenever his Little Black Jesus puts a foot wrong, he pretends to have never heard of whatever we might be talking about. And then when you do put him some knowledge, he either responds with imbecilic snark, a shriek of SQUIRREL! or doesn't bother to respond. He's a fundamentally dishonest hack.

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Except for bright lights like Freeman, however, I'd be willing to bet that more women than not will be swayed by "Julia." Big Daddy Government protecting "independent" women is a sure vote-getter. It got Clinton elected twice and Urkel once. No reason to think it won't work again.